Assessment-Powered Teaching

by Nancy W. Sindelar

• ISBN13: 9781412992084
• ISBN10: 1412992087
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-19
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

The purpose of Power Teaching is to change teachers' attitudes toward testing by illustrating the power that meaningful assessment brings to the art and science of teaching. The book also shares efficient and practical tools and strategies for using formative and summative assessment results to actually enhance teaching effectiveness and students' learning. Using testimonials from "power teachers," the text shows classroom teachers how they too can use assessment analyses to inform their teaching, provide motivational feedback to their students, and monitor their students' progress toward learning targets and standards. This handy reference argues that testing can be a power tool for helping teachers rather than an intrusion on academic freedom and valuable instructional time. A key distinction of the book is its coverage of using technology to collect and analyze assessment data.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Using the Power of Assessment

Become familiar with student assessment data and learn to use it to enhance your teaching.

Develop an efficient system for collecting meaningful student test data.

Learn how to use student test data as an individual teacher, a team member, and/or as part of a school-wide initiative.

Rubric: Using the Power of Assessment

Reflections

Creating a Data Driven Instructional System

Define Your Learning Targets

Begin Building Your Standards-based Assessments

Align Your Curriculum with Learning Targets and Assessments

A Word About Curriculum Mapping

Rubric: Creating a Data Driven Instructional System

Reflections

Making Data Driven Decisions in the Classroom

Using formative assessment data to immediately inform teaching

Using formative assessment data to inform teaching over time

Benchmark Assessments

Test Reports

Rubric Graded Assessments

Using rubric graded formative assessment data to immediately inform teaching

Using rubric graded formative assessment data to inform teaching over time

Rubric Graded Benchmark Assessments

Rubric: Making Data Driven Decisions in the Classroom

Reflections

Empowering Students with the Results of Their Learning

Eliminate "mystery teaching" by providing students with clear and consistent learning targets and assessments.

Give students specific feedback regarding their progress toward learning targets in a timely manner and in a format that is understandable to them.

Give students opportunities to self-assess and improve their work.

Provide interventions to help students reach learning targets in a timely manner.

Rubric: Empowering Students with the Results of Their Learning

Reflections

Powering Achievement in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Become a "cultural broker."

Analyze the needs of subgroups through the use of disaggregated test data.

Address the needs of subgroups by more accurately measuring what students know rather than their ability to communicate the knowledge in standard English.

Rubric: Powering Achievement in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Reflections

Harnessing the Power of Collective Wisdom

Data-driven Changes is Curriculum and Instruction

Data-driven Student Interventions

Making the most of team time.

Rubric: Harnessing the Power of Collective Wisdom

Reflections

Glossary

References

Index

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